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monkfish24

monkfish24

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Newly refurbished steel wheels with some M+S tyres on, ready for a bit of puddle bashing and off-roading at a friend's farm.
I'm surprised at how much difference a set of wheels and tyres makes to the look of these freelanders.
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GrumpyGel said:
They look very purposeful!
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hopefully if my house sale goes through, they will be. It's got a field on a slope with a stream at the bottom, with a dilapidated pump and house so until the series three is rebuilt, this will be doing the work over the fields.

Madmustang said:
Cool, How much/Where you buy them from?
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They were £220 for the tyres and I bought them from ebay. item number 192367964714.
 
Whistler said:
I've been thinking about a set of those tyres, seem a good price. Whats the quality like (e.g. did you end up with half a pound of lead on the rims to balance them ?) ?
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If it's being used on the road, wet weather grip and safe handling are far more important than how much weight they needed to balance them.
 
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Well after 200 miles of driving, they have been fantastic. Far exceeded my expectations.

Quality feels good, I couldn't tell you about balancing as I need to go back tomorrow and get them balanced. The lad forgot! No big deal, they are generally a fantastic local firm and he rushed them out as I was early to collect them anyway. Even without them balanced, I can feel a bit of judder around 50mph but certainly won't need a ton of lead to balance them out.

Road noise isn't bad for such a large tyre and wet weather performance seems very good, I've not been hurrying it in this weather but so far, nothing has made me feel wary of them.
I haven't used them off road yet unfortunately but have driven through a ford local to me and may be up at a friends farm this week for a play so I'll let you know how they get on.

The road tyres may go back on but I love the look of the FL with the M+S tyres and I don't do long distances and I don't commute with it. It's just a toy really and keep me in a land rover while the series 3 is OOA.
 
Does look good but Ive got to admit I wouldn't fancy driving with those on wet icy roads , not a great deal of surface contact with the big tread spacing and no sipes at all
 
monkfish24 said:
Well after 200 miles of driving, they have been fantastic. Far exceeded my expectations.

Quality feels good, I couldn't tell you about balancing as I need to go back tomorrow and get them balanced. The lad forgot! No big deal, they are generally a fantastic local firm and he rushed them out as I was early to collect them anyway. Even without them balanced, I can feel a bit of judder around 50mph but certainly won't need a ton of lead to balance them out.
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Sounds good :cool:
 
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